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The Niobe poems / Kate Daniels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daniels, Kate, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- American poetry--20th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 63 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1988]
- Language Note:
- English.
- Summary:
- Kate Daniels's central myth is that of Niobe, the mother in Greek mythology whose children were killed by the gods because of her great pride in them. She taps the lasting power of the ancient story in poems about personal loss and political insanity. Though the subjects are frequently grim, the final effect of the book is not, since Daniels's central theme is endurance, the discovery of what we need to survive.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- The Myth of Niobe
- How the Myth Was Handed Down
- Dramatis Personae
- Niobe Speaks as an Abyssinian Woman
- A Niobe Poem by David Ignatow
- Scene 1: The Gods / The Myth / The Accident
- The Little King
- The Gods Are Optional
- Afterwards Apollo
- But Artemis
- The Death of the Niobids
- Scene 2: Before the Accident / A Family Romance
- Tenderness
- Jeunes meres
- Perfect
- Child Abuse
- Thief
- Menage a trois
- Family Life
- Fragile
- Amphion and the New Gnostics
- Her Body
- Bathing
- Precious
- Scene 3: After the Accident / The Funeral
- After Pain Passes
- The Bedspread
- Final Visit
- The Poem
- I Was Afraid of Him
- Lying Down
- Still Lying Down
- Before the Funeral
- After the Funeral
- Scene 4: The End of the Story / A New Narration / A New Niobe
- The First Day of the Rest of Her Life
- Niobe of the Painting
- Sorrow Figure
- Ethiopia
- Bus Ride
- War Photograph
- The Fire Mystery
- Ars Poetica
- The New Niobe
- Epilogue
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title screen (Science Direct viewed September 19, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60).
- ISBN:
- 9780822980063
- 0822980061
- OCLC:
- 1445426353
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